by Felix Speulman | Nov 7, 2025 | 2025 CIO of the Year Award
Laura Klaver has been with Thales Netherlands since 2018. Starting as an executive secretary, she rose through the ranks in various roles, including enterprise information manager and chief data officer. After a brief hiatus, she took on the CIO role in early 2023....
by Felix Speulman | Oct 28, 2025 | 2025 CIO of the Year Award
A physicist by training and headed for a career in the oil industry, Matthijs Zwart joined KPN in the late 1990s to help expand mobile telephony. After holding various management positions in telecom and networking, he joined Vitens in 2017, where he completely...
by Felix Speulman | Oct 23, 2025 | 2025 CIO of the Year Award
Kurt De Ruwe has been CIO at AkzoNobel for over three years now, where he, combining modesty with confidence, has brought about change in many areas: from cost reduction and intelligent automation to a radically new approach to network security. “For me, the status...
by Felix Speulman | Oct 14, 2025 | 2025 CIO of the Year Award
Alexander Zwart has served as Chief Innovation & Technology Officer (CITO) at Rabobank for the past two years and is a member of the Managing Board. Before this, he co-led the large-scale transition to agile working, a transformation that now encompasses 15,000...
by Felix Speulman | Sep 17, 2025 | 2025 CIO of the Year Award, Updates
Laura Klaver (Thales), Kurt De Ruwe (AkzoNobel), Alexander Zwart (Rabobank), and Matthijs Zwart (Vitens) are competing for the CIO of the Year Award 2025. The companies Hyfen, QuantWare, and Avular have been nominated for the Tech Hero Award 2025. Both awards will be...
